Wednesday, June 21, 2006

On email scholarship [sonnet]

Having first weeded out the spamthe letters a'gleam before his eyeswith every reply to the repliesthe scholar's perusal nimbly ranthrough the epistolary scrawlspanning decades first to stylewas he attentive through the pilehis navigation discerned withalnuggests of substance here historicallythere philosphically glint germanefriendships & courtships wax & wanequandaries frankly or rhetorically peeking out from the seamless reams of salvaged epistolary dreams